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| 6329314949 | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) | German-born scientist who immigrated to the United States in 1933 to escape the Nazis. He helped to persuade FDR to push ahead with preparations for developing the atomic bomb, but later ruefully declared that "annihilation of any life on earth has been brought within the range of technical possibilities." | 0 | |
| 6329314950 | Dwight D. ("Ike") Eisenhower (1890-1969) | Supreme Commander of U.S. Forces in Europe during World War II, He, the war hero, later became the thirty-fourth president of the United States. During his two terms, from 1952 to 1960, He presided over the economically prosperous 1950s. He was praised for his dignity and decency, though criticized for not being more assertive on civil rights. | 1 | |
| 6329314951 | Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) | The flamboyant, vain, and brilliant American commander in the Philippines and mastermind of the "leapfrogging" strategy for bypassing strongly defended Japanese islands during World War II. He would go on to command American troops in the Korean War until he was relieved of his duties by President Harry S. Truman for insubordination in 1951. | 2 | |
| 6329314952 | Chester Nimitz (1885-1966) | U.S. Navy admiral who was Commander-in-chief of the Pacific Naval Forces for the United States and its allies during World War II. He strategized the important victories in the Battles of Midway and the Coral Sea. | 3 | |
| 6329314953 | Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) | Vice President under Franklin Roosevelt in 1945, He assumed the office of the presidency in April of that year, when Roosevelt died from a brain hemorrhage while vacationing in Warm Springs, Georgia. He won another term in his own right in an historically close election in 1948 against Republican Thomas Dewey. As president, he chose to use nuclear weapons against Japan at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. | 4 |
